Professional Trainings & Speaking Engagements
The work of helping people has never been more complex. Whether supporting individuals through trauma, navigating ethical dilemmas, leading teams, or working within high-pressure systems, professionals are often asked to make thoughtful and ethically complex decisions in situations where there is no simple script.
My trainings are designed to help people meet that complexity with greater clarity, skill, and confidence. I blend clinical expertise, storytelling, reflective practice, and practical skill-building to create learning experiences that are engaging, thoughtful, and immediately useful.
Participants leave with evidence-informed tools, shared language for difficult conversations, and new ways of understanding the people they serve — and themselves.
My trainings are highly interactive and grounded in co-created learning. Participants bring their own experience, questions, cultural backgrounds, and knowledge of the unique populations they serve into the room, helping shape a learning experience that is relevant to their practice and communities.
Whether we're exploring motivational interviewing, trauma, justice-informed practice, vicarious trauma, or reflective practice, each training is designed to connect theory with real-world practice in a way that feels relevant, interactive, and memorable.
Available for keynote presentations, workshops, conferences, and organizational training. CEU-eligible trainings available upon request.
Designed for Helpers & Healers
These trainings are designed for people whose work depends on trust, thoughtful communication, sound judgment, and meaningful human connection. Whether you work in healthcare, behavioral health, education, legal practice, nonprofit leadership, or public service, the work often asks you to navigate ethical complexity, competing responsibilities, and difficult decisions while staying grounded in relationship.
Trainings are designed to support that work with practical tools, reflective space, and opportunities to think more deeply about communication, culture, context, and the people and communities you serve.
CUSTOMIZED TRAININGS
Let's Start with a Conversation
Every organization brings its own expertise. I enjoy partnering with teams to design trainings that respond to the questions they're already asking. Whether you're looking for a keynote, workshop, consultation, or multi-session series, we'll build something that reflects your goals, your population, and your everyday practice.
Specialized topics include:
Motivational Interviewing (Beginning, Intermediate, & Advanced)
Motivational Interviewing & Ethics
Motivational Interviewing for Attorneys, Legal Teams, & Justice Settings
Motivational Interviewing in Spanish / Entrevista Motivacional en español
Motivational Interviewing, Metaphor, & Reflective Practice
The Hero Was Never Meant to Stay: Vicarious Trauma & Sustainable Helping
Metaphor, Meaning-Making, & Healing
Ghosts & Angels / Fantasmas y Ángeles: Intergenerational Trauma, Memory, & Healing
Leadership & Organizational Resilience
Customized workshops tailored to your team and community
WHAT PARTICIPANTS ARE SAYING
⭐ Average Participant Rating: 4.97/5
"This work is so original and so inspired!"
"I loved her energy and the passion she brought when she was speaking. I also appreciated the knowledge and group activities to assist with engagement."
"Phenomenal - we need more like this! Highly engaging presenter."
"I really enjoyed the visuals. Her passion came through and her presentation was well organized."
"I loved her map of trauma/life. Also her case examples."
"Loved the metaphor and visualization."
“The presentation was informative and a great experience. It is impactful to see how passionate she is about what she does."
"Overall amazing. Very engaging. Very informative. Left a long-lasting impact."
